Pegg 'wants Scotty sex in new Star Trek'

Simon Pegg has joked that he wants his Star Trek character Scotty to sleep with an alien woman in the sci-fi reboot's sequel.

The actor told DS at the Jameson Empire Awards that he is keen for his Enterprise engineer to get involved in an interplanetary romance.

"I'd like to have sex with a green woman! Not me, Scotty! I say things and I regret them immediately!" he quipped.

Pegg added that he is happy to see sci-fi getting the big budget treatment by Hollywood: "Science-fiction/fantasy, that kind of stuff, is starting to be taken more seriously - mainly because it makes a lot of money, I guess - as a viable genre of picture. It's nice to see films like District 9 getting in the Oscars."